Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.3.9 7W72

Apple has seeded the latest beta and maintenance release to its Panther OS, which will pack over 30 bug fixes and improvements.

As previously anticipated, Apple on Friday seeded its developers with the first build of Mac OS X 10.3.9, the next in a series of maintenance releases to its Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" operating system.

The system update is being distributed as a 29.5MB image and is currently at build 7W72.

In a seed note accompanying the latest build, Apple reportedly told developers to focus their testing efforts in the following areas: Bluetooth, DVD Player, FireWire devices, Modems (both internal and external), Networking, Printing, Safari, Terminal and USB devices. The company also asked that developers assess the 'general system usability and reliability.'

Apple also listed approximately 30 areas of change and enhancement that are already reflected in build 7W72. Some of these improvements include various video driver fixes, improved Directory Services performance, Java garbage collection optimization, 'wake from sleep' performance improvements, and a new version of the Mac OS X kernel (7.9.0).

I wish they would fix my iMac G4 NEVER automatically going to sleep anymore since around 10.3.4 or so. I have to manually push the power button to make it sleep, and changing the settings in preferences has no effect at all.

Originally posted by schmidm77I wish they would fix my iMac G4 NEVER automatically going to sleep anymore since around 10.3.4 or so. I have to manually push the power button to make it sleep, and changing the settings in preferences has no effect at all.

Maybe you have some sort of USB or FireWire device attached that keeps it from going to sleep?